Independent Shiva Ayyadurai challenges Elizabeth Warren

October 3, 2018

V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai doesn’t have much use for the two-party political system in Massachusetts.

He’s running an energetic campaign as an independent for U.S. Senate to topple incumbent Democrat Elizabeth Warren, complete with a campaign bus bearing the slogan “Only a real Indian can beat a fake Indian.”

Ayyadurai, 54, was born in Bombay, India, (now Mumbai) into the bottom rung of that county’s caste system. His parents, he says, overcame that stigma by getting an education and moving to the United States — Paterson, New Jersey.